Improved washing-machine



UNITED STATES PATENT EEICE.

J. H. FELLOWS, OF BELVIDERE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification forming part 0f Letters Patent No. 13.012, dated June 7, 1864.

To @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J, H. FELLoWs, of Belvidere, in the county of Boone and State of Illinois, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Washing Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whichf Figure 1 is a side sectional view of my invention, taken, in the line xx, Fig. 2; Fig. 2, a horizontal section of the same, taken in the line y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two gures.

This invention relates to an improved clotheswashing machine of that class in which a horizontal circular rubber is placed in a tub. rIhe invention consists in the employment or use of projections of a peculiar shape applied to the bottom of the tub and to the under or face side of the rubber in such a manner as to combine the rubbing and compressing` principles and insure a perfect cleansing otA the clothes without injuring them in the least.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a tub constructed in the usual conical form and placed upon a stand, B, of suitable height. G is an upright arbor which is fitted centrallyI in the tub. A, its lower end passing through the bottom of the tub and secured in position by a key, D, the arbor having a collar, a, upon it which bears upon the bottom ofthe tub.

E is a circular rubber, which has a circular hole at its center to admit of the upright arbor C passing through it, and said rubber has two vertical posts, b b, attached, which extend up and above the top of the tub, and are connected to a horizontal bar, D, through the center of which the upright arbor C passes, as shown clearly in Fig. 1, the bar D serving as a handle by which the rubber E is operated.

To the bottom c ot the tub there are secured a series of projections, d, which are formed of knobs having a prominent central ring or bead, l, with a slightly-conical end, 2, at each side. These knobs or projections are turned in a lathe, and sawed longitudinally through the center, each halt' forming a projection, thc flat sides being attached to the bottom c, and the rounded sides being uppermost. Pre' cisely similar projections, d, are attached to the under or face side ot'the rubber E. These projections are attached to the. bottom a ofthe tub and to the rubber E in curved lines extending from the centers of the bottom a. and rubber E to their peripheries, said lines ap proximating to the form of a cyma reversa, and those of the rubber E being in a reverse position to those of the bottom a, and the projections on one line are placed opposite the centers of the spaces between the projections on the adjoining lines, as shown clearly in Fig. 2. lhe curved lines on which the projections are placed are indicated in red.

The clothes to be washed are placed in the tub A, and the rubber E then adjusted in the tub and upon the clothes, the tub being supplied with a requisite quantity of suds. The rubber E is then first turned in one direction and then in the other, and the clothes subjected to a rubbing and squeezing process in consequence of the projections e e', the clothes being compressed between the projections and rubbed by their action upon them.

I do not claim a tub provided with a circular rubber, for that is an old device; but

I do claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 'Ihe projections d d, formed ot' a single central ring or bead, 1, with conical ends 2, divided longitudinally and centrally, but this I only claim when the said projections are arranged on the bottom c and rubber E in the particular manner represented, and used in combination with the stand B, frame D (l, arbor C a, and key D', all as shown and described.

J. H. FELLOWS.

Witnesses:

J. C. MoRDoFE, T. H. FLACK. 

